Anyone else's LO suddenly resisting sleep?

For about the past year, getting LO down for bedtime / naps has been a breeze. We always do the same bedtime routine, and it's worked great. Just recently he's started singing his bedtime song along with me which is adorable. But this past week he's just been refusing to sit in my lap for bedtime story, asking to go to the potty, trying to play with his toys, and then just screaming when put in his crib. Anyone else going through this?

I also think it can be a phase. It can happen for a while in one shot or broken up (on and off). Lucky for you it just now started. Azy has done it for a few days in a row three times already, but a few months apart. I believe they go through their mental development stages, in which they just want to stay up and keep playing, learning, talking, etc. I always had to let her CIO.

Yes! Our LO was taking forever to fall asleep.when he started talking more. He's recently started putting together sentences and with that came the fighting sleep. It lasted about 2 weeks. He's now back to letting me read his book and then saying "I seep" at the end!

OMG yes! In fact it's crazy here. My lo can not only climb out of his crib, he can unlock a knob handle door and goes down stairs and opens the fridge and starts snacking! I've tried laying near him in hopes that might encourage him to stay at least in the room but nope.for the last week he has not gone to sleep before 1030 and still wakes up bright and early. He may not be tired but I sure am and I miss have that 30 or so minutes downtime.

My son is going through this phase for the 2nd time!! I swear I want to pull my hair out some nights. We have him in a toddler bed with a gate in front of his door, but the other night he was able to knock it loose (we put a 2nd gate in front of the stairs so our puppy can't go down), and he walked right over it and screamed for HOURS in the hallway. We even tried to put him in bed with my 4 yr old since he's fine as long as you lay next to him. That worked for about half the night, then he wanted mommy. My daughter never did this, so this is new to us. I sure hope it's coming to an end so I can get some sleep again!

I'm glad it's better for you ladies. It's fucking hell in this house right now.
I'm like 3 weeks in. I hope it gets better soon or else I might just give her away to the next person that comes to the door...

We just got over this and it lasted about 3 weeks. It was awful. We haven't gotten back 100% but its doable. He doesn't want to read anymore now he wants to watch Mickey. Ugh that damn mouse! Since it had gotten better we tried to convert his crib into a toddler bed. Yeah didn't work out he broke the rail and would scream anytime we got near it with him. I changed it back to the crib and he giggled and went straight to sleep. At this point I'm so tired and sleep deprived he will get a big boy bed when he moves out!

Us! OMG it's awful at nap time and bedtime. I have no idea what to try next. He's in a toddler bed and seriously starts doing gymnastics and comedy hour (more like hour and a half), running out of his room, asking to potty, asking for snack, asking for water, yelling for the dog. Ugh. I'm so tired and feeling like a horrible momma. He's never been a good sleeper, but he was better than this! We were going to start TTC #2 in a few weeks, but now I'm not so sure I can handle this and pregnancy! Hoping its a phase for our house too...